Hathaway Noa

Hathaway Noa
Universal Century character
The family of Noa in U.C. 0105, from left to right: Bright Noa, Hathaway Noa, Mirai Noa, and Cheimin Noa. Art by Haruhiko Mikimoto.
First appearance	Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
Created by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Voiced by	Yasuko Hanai (Japanese, Zeta Gundam) Brett Bauer (English, Zeta Gundam) Nozomu Sasaki (Japanese, Char's Counterattack) Bill Switzer (English, Char's Counterattack)
Profile
Aliases	Mafty Navue Erin (Hathaway's Flash)
Nationality	Earth Federation
Notable relatives	Bright Noa (father) Mirai Yashima (mother) Cheimin Noa (sister)

Hathaway Noa is a fictional character from the Gundam franchise. He first appeared in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, and is most prominently featured in the feature film Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack and the novel Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash. His name may be a reference to Noah Hathaway (Boxey, of Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series), who was also the son of a major character).

Background

Hathaway Noa was born in the year UC 0080, to Bright Noa and Mirai Yashima. He makes his first animated appearance along with his mother and his sister Cheimen Noa in the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, while his father was in space. Due to his father's military service, he was absent for large periods of Hathaway's life.

Appearances

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Hathaway and his sister have a very minor role in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. They show up only briefly during the first time the series shifts towards Earth, along with their mother Mirai.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack

In Char's Counterattack, Hathaway escapes the doomed earth in a space shuttle. His shuttle is caught in a Neo Zeon battle, but Bright Noa rescues him. Hathaway becomes an unofficial member of Londo Bell and tries to assist tacticly. In the final battle to stop Axis from colliding with earth he makes an attempt to persuade Quess Paraya to stop fighting by launching in a Jegan. Quess had already lost her mind and does not listen to his words of reason. Chan Agi, Amuro's partner and chief mechanic for the RX-93 Nu Gundam, launches in the damaged Re-GZ and found both of them, and after exchanging words with Quess, Agi launches a missile at the MA and destroying Quess (who shielded Hathaway with her MA in order to save his life) in the process. Hathaway shocked and infuriated over Quess' death, attacks Chan's mobile suit in a fit of rage. She was incapable of fighting back (due to the state of her MS) and is killed with a direct beam shot to her cockpit. Hathaway is one of the few surviving characters at the end of CCA.

The novelization Beltorchika's Children, which was written by director Yoshiyuki Tomino, features several differences. One of the biggest ones for Hathaway is that instead of Chan killing Quess, it is Hathaway who does so accidentally.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash

The novel Hathaway's Flash is a sequel to the novel version of Char's Counterattack. Set 12 years after those events, Hathaway is now the leader of the terrorist group Mafty, and operates under the alias Mafty Navue Erin. Despite piloting a powerful new Gundam, he is eventually captured and sentenced to death by Bright, who does not realize that he is his own son. Before he died Quess Paraya's ghost visited him and said she was never in love with him, making him realize he wasted his life.

Gundam Evolve

The fifth short movie of the Gundam Evolve series, re-tells the events of the battle against Quess Paraya in the Alpha Azieru, with a more positive ending then the grim one that occurred during Char's Counterattack. After attacking Hathaway in his RGM-89 Jegan, Quess is encounted by Amuro Ray and does battle with him in his Nu Gundam. Hathaway's voice tells Quess not to be angry anymore and Amuro convinces her to find Hathaway. It's implied that the two found each other and lived happily together afterwards. This particular short was written by Tomino himself, now with a more upbeat attitude.